Fierce Green Planet

8:32 am

Sat April 19, 2014

Fifty years of environmentalism

On Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22 at 9pm, Rocky Mountain PBS presents Amercian Masters, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet.

This film is an exploration of the environmental movement -- grassroots and global activism spanning 50 years from conservation to climate change. Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like Edward O. Wilson, A Fierce Green Fire chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future -- and succeeding against all odds. The film is directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep.